PROJECT No. 6 – EVERYTHING WE DO (HAS PURPOSE) SOUNDSCAPE
"The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation" (McLuhan, 119)
Everything is happening all right now. I don't think I have ever felt so overwhelmed. As I've been getting into tech week, along with the most of my vital work in college, and I've felt like I'm drowning, like I can't step back and breathe. Ive had something to be doing, that I could be doing, that I should be doing, that I want to be doing, that I have to be doing every second of every day these past weeks. (I don't mean to say 'woe is me, I am the Lawrence Busiest'; everyone else on campus has, does, or will feel this. No one should get to that point of feeling inconsolably busy.) This builds on the fact that I won't have the structure of being a student in just a couple of months. I can't imagine the fact that it's been 4 years since I started college, 8 years since I started high school, etc all the way back.
What's my purpose? I've been thinking about wanting to consider this question; I feel like I have no time in the world for that right now. If I start to think about this, I start spiraling, and there's no point in setting myself up with that when I have so many people counting on me, at least specifically these coming weeks.
I can't see what's 2 weeks ahead of me; that's not how my brain functions. I wish it would; I wish it didn't stress me out to the core. I don't know what I'm doing with my life, but I'm alive, and the world keeps clapping and the party goes on.
Any second, I feel, everything could come crashing down around me. The toothpick-strong scaffold I've stumbled into could crumble with just one misstep.
I'm not sure how I feel about the quote above. What does it mean to have a "Purpose"? Does this imply that everyone should be thoughtlessly drifting through space? Mindlessly wandering until things happen upon them. If so, that line of thought is harmful and does a disservice to everyone who has fought with their hearts, minds, and lives to make the world a better place in some aspect.
But, if the quote means to not focus on finding some "God-given" purpose, where a person will know all they have to do to fulfill their purpose, then I agree. We can't answer that question because we're not suited to know the answer. That answer would be the most overwhelming of all since if we knew everything, what would be the point of going on?
It's essential to live in a space that's just before the answer, to live with a motivation that pushes us to be our best. If you get too much in your head, you will crash out, and still, the world claps for you and, still, the party goes on.
Everything is happening all right now. I don't think I have ever felt so overwhelmed. As I've been getting into tech week, along with the most of my vital work in college, and I've felt like I'm drowning, like I can't step back and breathe. Ive had something to be doing, that I could be doing, that I should be doing, that I want to be doing, that I have to be doing every second of every day these past weeks. (I don't mean to say 'woe is me, I am the Lawrence Busiest'; everyone else on campus has, does, or will feel this. No one should get to that point of feeling inconsolably busy.) This builds on the fact that I won't have the structure of being a student in just a couple of months. I can't imagine the fact that it's been 4 years since I started college, 8 years since I started high school, etc all the way back.
What's my purpose? I've been thinking about wanting to consider this question; I feel like I have no time in the world for that right now. If I start to think about this, I start spiraling, and there's no point in setting myself up with that when I have so many people counting on me, at least specifically these coming weeks.
I can't see what's 2 weeks ahead of me; that's not how my brain functions. I wish it would; I wish it didn't stress me out to the core. I don't know what I'm doing with my life, but I'm alive, and the world keeps clapping and the party goes on.
Any second, I feel, everything could come crashing down around me. The toothpick-strong scaffold I've stumbled into could crumble with just one misstep.
I'm not sure how I feel about the quote above. What does it mean to have a "Purpose"? Does this imply that everyone should be thoughtlessly drifting through space? Mindlessly wandering until things happen upon them. If so, that line of thought is harmful and does a disservice to everyone who has fought with their hearts, minds, and lives to make the world a better place in some aspect.
But, if the quote means to not focus on finding some "God-given" purpose, where a person will know all they have to do to fulfill their purpose, then I agree. We can't answer that question because we're not suited to know the answer. That answer would be the most overwhelming of all since if we knew everything, what would be the point of going on?
It's essential to live in a space that's just before the answer, to live with a motivation that pushes us to be our best. If you get too much in your head, you will crash out, and still, the world claps for you and, still, the party goes on.
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